8 year old models as adult
 

Don't know if this was the right place to post this, but it scared the crap out of me.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...55E662,00.html

This is an 8 year old girl, made up like a 'heroin chic' model. Her parents have stated that they have no problem with people seeing her as a sex object.

Has the whole world gone insane? This poor child is 8 and herstupid parents are OK with tarting her up like this?

I'm feeling vaguely ill after reading this.

"I'm very proud of her," he said. "If you go through life worrying about what people think, then you're not going to have a happy life. "

I can't agree more really. I mean, I wouldn't worry about the person I shot with my gun or what his family might think of me, that could mean I wouldn't be happy anymore. I couldn't possibly worry about what people think of me for running a red light, because other than endanger people, I can't think of any reason why I shouldn't be happy and ignore it.
Hell, I can't possibly pass up on the opportunity to milk every cent out of my little daughter, just because it might screw her up or make people comment on my behaviour, that would make me not happy.

Seems to me like the idiot is talking about himself mostly, every quote of his goes past the article and is about something else.

eg.
"If there's someone out there who has a sickness, I can't control that. That's up to the police to handle. "

Nobody is talking about pedophiles, they're talking about the fact that *he* is the morally twisted fuck in this. Somehow, that got past him

8 years old! its just wrong!

Here's the full story:

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These people are really messed up if you ask me. Its disgusting that they're allowing her daughter to do this...

:mad:

Translation:

"I really don't care that my daughter may get screwed up in the head and become a bitter, neurotic adult, so long as I can make money off of her now."

I agree. All i need to know is that she is 8 years old and being veiwed as a sex object and i know that its just completly wrong.

It just makes me furious that anyone can be this callous as to the evil shit they're doing to their child. Way to rob your kids' childhood, idiots!

W.T.F. !!!
... I am at a loss for words.
This is just so messed up....8 years old...
W.T.F next ... it's just sad.

Now this is a prime example of parents taking advantage of their child for their own financilal status!!!

I'm sick of the 'heroin-chic' look.

Yes. Let's sell products portraying people as drug addicts. And like it.

Not to mention she's a fucking child. When I was eight? I was all about playing at the park and rollerblading.

Jesus.

That's just fucking sick.

I agree that this is definitely twisted. Sick fuck. Now, as a father of a three year old, I sure can't see my daughter like that in 5 years. Not even 15 more years. This little girl is a cutie, and looks older than 8 in the pic the news link shows. Of course, that doesn't make it right...in fact, it almost makes it worse.

thats fucked up!

This is the kinda people (parents) that should be forbidden to breed.

grrr! I also have a three year old and and 18 month old...and that right there is freaking wrong...did you know somewhere out there they sell thongs for 10 yr. olds too...it's old news...but still freaking gross!!

I trully feel for that little girl and hope someone steps up to the plate to keep her head as level as mommy and daddy says it is :( And if you ask me...he is a pediphile from what I read...just because there was a lack of evidence...GROSS!!

Makes me sooooo mad!

Whats next child porography?

When I see girls like this, I have a hard time telling whether or not I am simply getting old or if there is something different about young girls today.

I'll tell ya.....when I go to the mall or the movies, it scares the heck out of me to think that someday, I might have a daughter that looks older, is more physically developed, and acts wilder than anything I remember from my childhood. Right now, my wife and I have only a son, which is scary in its own way, but as a father of one and hopeful future father of others, this stuff is scary.

IMO, that pretty much IS child pornography. :mad:

She's hot....


....I'M KIDDING!!!

...thin line...

:mad: :o

I do however find it appalling that they can make an 8 year old look like that. Honestly, if it weren't that it actually said she was 8, I would think she was 13 or so. It's really quite sad, too, because that girl should be learning her times tables and not parading herself (whether she likes or dislikes it) as some sort of "8 year old sex symbol"

...and to even further that, what the hell IS AN 8 year old sex symbol? Pardon the blatenness, but I don't think there are too many 8 year olds masterbating to her picture. You KNOW there is some sick 50 year old fuck out in the middle of nowhere getting off to her picture, and that is the harsh truth. How can her parents let her do this knowing the kind of world we live in today?

Man, this kinda stuff really pisses me off. It's just not fair to the girl.

Im my opinion that is not at all acceptable for someone that young

it's sad how much parents make their kids do stuff like this.

I dont really know what to say... This kind of goes with the teen prostitution story in another thread. Kids are in so much of a hurry to grow up, and I'm sure this girl is loving it. She doesn't understand that there are some sick ppl out there that don't see her as "cute". I hope her parents get a rude awakening really soon.

Call me a Conservative bastard but a child of 8 has no buisness modeling as a "sex symbol". It is down-right raunchy. Although probably nothing can be done, it should be strongly discouraged, i mean what sick fuck would dress their 8-year-old daughter up in slutty clothes and then slut her up even more with makeup....pshhhh

Thats horrible. I thought that the Aussies were the only sane ones left, aside from the rampant racism.

Goes back to that whole Jean-Benee Ramsey thing.

Kids are kids, adults are adults
Let's not mix these up

Let's let them have their childhood.

mildly related: I heard that like.. 10 year olds were having sex.. is this possible?

totally related: So, it should be illegal to call/sell her as sex-symbol. Someone needs to be off legal age to have sex in order to legally be a sex symbol. IMO...

Anything's possible. A better question is WHY WOULD THEY?

10 year olds in some parts of America are having sex, yes.

Kids mature a lot faster, sure it's disgusting, sure I lost my virginity at 18 years old.. but kids are still doing it.

Some of the households that kids grow up in are purely disgusting, and the parents don't care. Kids learn about things and if they see no consequenses then they will do it.

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bloody sickening

it's a slippery slope from what i'm about to say to an orwellian nightmare, but here goes:

some people clearly should not be allowed to raise children.

Look at her eyes -- cold and sad! I would NEVER allow my 9 or 7-year-old daughters to loose their innocence at such a young age. Her father is a SICK SICK man!

Granted the rapid development of children is scary. And to think my son at 11 y/o wants to call his "girl friend" every evening.

Wrong Wrong and Wrong! Its just sick and peverted if u ask me!

I have a ten year old niece who is full into puberty...so I guess it would be possible. My sister had to start giving her "the talk" at about eight when she started to develop.

I am disgusted by this article. The father is so self absorbed I don't ever think he will understand the ramifications of his actions.....well, maybe in 10 years when his daughter is a school dropout, druggee, prostitute, and has a total lack of respect for societal norms, will he understand what he did was wrong.

Its also sad that these people have forgotten their responsibility as parents to raise their children right.:(

YEP

What's really sad is that the little girl will end up paying later for the parents skirting their responsiblities.

This is why some people should not be parents. The money grabbing bastard is only out to help himself. Anyone who puts themselves before their children like this, does not deserve to be a parent. I really hope that this does not screw her up.

"Stars such as Christina Aguilera and Kelly Osbourne are leading a fashion revolution that is influencing young girls. "

Kelly Osbourne?

sk

With respect.

I reported it to Moderator.


Hold that thought.

Did anyone else have a hard time reading that article. The entire thing was comprised of two line long paragraphs. Almost every one on which was a quote. It was painful.

Oh yea, and the kid thing, blah blah, bad mojo and all.

That is some fucked up shit..wtf are people thinking?

Sure she is. She's also EIGHT YEARS OLD.

I agree. This guy is phenominally irresponsible.

I may be asking for trouble here, but I think you all missed the point. She is 8 years old. She's dressed and made up to look older. She goes for jobs that would otherwise go to models who actually are older, rather than her who just looks older. Nowhere in the article did it say anything about nude modelling or anything even close to child pornography. The only reason she can do this is that when make-up and hair is done right, in the proper lighting, she appears older. She isn't being sold as the "8 year-old you'd love to fuck", she's like a child actor playing an older role. A little messed up, but not the end of the world.

Edit: I didn't have time to finish this last night, so here's the rest:

It's not like her parents just turned her over to some sleazy photographer they don't know. It's her father taking the pictures. He's not selling her into prostitution, and he's not renting out her body.

They're just pictures.

So If pedos are bad....
WHY does civilzed society allow children to be sold as sexpots??? We universally condemn pedos as child molesters but we allow masturbation material to be created and sell children as sexual objects. What kind of message does this send? What do you think of this? Can we condemn pedophilia and child molestation (they are not the same thing) and at the same time allow child models to be portrayed as sexy adults? Sounds like inconsistency at best, and hypocrisy at worst.

That's somewhat disturbing.

This is soooooo wrong. That girl looks like this TA I had In my freshman english class. Its crazy, ten years difference, but the only difference I can see is that this girls a slut, and Shannon was anything but.

You need a license to have a dog, a car, to fish, to hunt, and to drive, but anyone can have a child.

This poor kid will be fucked up by the age of 18...GUARANTEED!!:mad:

Do you really give it <b>that</b> long?

This is indeeed disturbing.

Why can't kids be allowed to be kids?

looks like a crack whore is you ask me

You know, there's certainly no shortage of idiots willing to prove how criminally stupid they are in public.

I just can't help but wonder what this will do to that young girl's sense of self as she grows older? We humans have childhood for a reason: it's that period in our lives when anti-social behavior is tolerated and corrected, which allows us to function in society later on in our lives. What happens when this is not allowed to occur is truly tragic.

First off,
He doesn't think she looks old? Then WhyTF is she posing as a fucking adult!?!?!? He has all his stupid screwed up arguements, and yet this one, single quote contradicts the whole thing!!!!

Secondly...
Look! Even WK thinks if fucking sick!!! And we all know if its sick to him... It, in no way, can be good.. but really fucking wrong. ;)

What is the world coming to? That is just messed up man.

That's what the "heroin-chic" look is about. Not only are they turning an 8-year old into a sex symbol, they are also turning her into one that looks like she is on drugs and hence will be an "easy target", and then selling the picks to the asian market.

Now, with all due respect to the vast majority of asians who think of the behavoiur as immoral etc, the asian porn market is well known for it's habit of pushing the limits on it's porn content even younger, and portraying girls, legal or otherwise, as much younger than they really are.

An 8 year old like this being used for advertising - it's not only the parents who are sick, it's the people who use her as a model too. And as for the "heroin-chic" look itself, IMHO it simply makes her look ugly.

Yeah buddy, I'm sure the 8 year-old is a slut.

From what I've seen so far (they only had one picture) yeah, they're only pictures. But her looking older isn't a good thing with all the sick people out here. And I don't understand the point in getting a child to do it, let alone his child, when he can just as easily get an adult to do this adult job.

A good example for why their should be a permit required for some people to reproduce.

vermin, your not alone out there. I personally think this is bad parenting but no worse than if she were acting in some nick kids show or something. (kids and fame never mix well) What scares me a lot more than a kid in heavy makeup is all the people calling for "breeding restrictions" My god people, I hope thats a joke, because it makes even the darkest vision of Orwell look like a summers day. Negative eugenics is a very very scary idea.

wrong wrong wrong... its just plain wrong...

damn, when i was 8 years old i was playing with legos and running around pretending i was a squirrel or something... the idea of modeling for anything at all never even entered my mind... i didn't care, i was 8..

my question is.. what's going to happen to this poor girl's childhood?

Can the worldwide community just tattoo "stupid mother fuckers" on these parents heads and drop them off in the middle of the Pacific somewhere?

Someday when that girl is a crack-whore she will say, "My parents made me who I am today..."

Why is it that stupid people are the most fertile? These "parents" should be strung up and fed to the dogs.

Thats just wrong on SO many levels.

So if I offered her $20 bucks to suck my dick and then to bend over so I could cram her ass her parents would be cool with that? I mean you can't help what people think and do, they said it themselves, they want to market her as a sex object, then you're saying that object can have sex.

Fucking morons.

i was watching oprah once about this weird new trend for aspiring child 'models' to have their own websites and post pictures that often come out as rather suggestive. it's sad. i don't like it. what happened to the age of innocence?? we live in a sex negative society full of fear..

wrong , bad , evil , wrong.

It's very sad. I hate to think what that's going to do to that poor girl. She's going to have lots of issues and problems when she grows up.

thats kind of scary.

Stick her in some overalls and a t-shirt, and have her go ride her bike or something. You want her to earn money? Have her set up a lemonade stand or something. I mean seriously, isn't it the job of the parents to support the kids, instead of the other way around?

It's not that they are the most fertile, it's just that they haven't got the sense to do proper family planning or think about the consequences of sex. I suppose to stupid people, sex is just a bit of fun. Then when the lady starts getting a bump growing;

"er, how did that happen? Oh well, er, we have a kid! er ok, er, lets just carry on and treat the kid as an extra mouth to feed and shout at them whenever they make unwanted noise. Then we'll use them to make us more money that we can use to buy our cigarettes." :rolleyes:

I think people like this should be forcibly sterlisised to ensure they have no further children and these kids should be either closely watched by social services or taken into care. Poor things - how to fuck up a kid big time.

I agree, that picture turns my stomach. Those parents are sick.

Wrong is the only word that comes to mind...i think shes adopted and the parents are doing it for the money...that just sick

:mad:Too take it one step further, that is sick if she were 13, 14, 15, oh well you get the point. This world is tough enough. Now how does she deal with really "growing up".

Wrong,but then she isnt my daughter :/ So I can't comment.

I showed that picture to my other half, devoid of the news articles etc, and asked her to guess the age of the girl. She said "16 or 17". Telling, isn't it!
She couldn't believe it when I told her she was only 8.

Yeah, thats not cool. It is child porn. almost. Crazy money grabbing parents.

sick

Amazing the lengths people will go to for money. Poor poor child.

$$$ = I really don't give a flying crap about my daughter's well being.

Dude. Eight years old.

"Eight year olds dude."

omg is this for real!! :( thats just sick

Thats pretty sick. And sick as in not nice, not the skater 'cool' term ;)

Yeah, I remember Abercrombie and Fitch did that. They also got sued over a racial slur on one of their shirts advertising a chinese food restaurant.

your link is broken

..

I looked back on this and thought "time for an update".
A short bit of googling later...

The origonal article has dissapeared, but can now be found at http://www.dadi.org/just8sex.htm

Condemnation came from a psycologist: "It's almost like prostitution to be representing a child in this way" (http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/adi/N13...ea,WImpAheWxa?)

Another forum had this wonderful comment posted: "she looks like a burned out 40 year old who's been smoking since she was 8... she doesn't look very healthy either."
Another choice quote from the forum was "How can a parent not be bothered that their little girl only gets picked for a photo shoot because she pulls off the kind of street-walker look that would've made Kate Moss blush during her heyday?" and, rather disturbingly, "When I was working retail last year, I saw a child who couldn't have been older than 6 years old wearing platform shoes, tight black pleather pants, and a halter top that said "flirt" across the chest. We all just gasped. She was such a pretty girl regardless. It's one thing to play dress up at slumber parties, it's another to go out in public and become drool bate at the age of 6. I don't care how fashionable her outfit was, it certainly wasn't age appropriate."

A german retailer called bonprix selling provocative clothing had "morgan featherstone" in small writing at the bottom of the page, along with loads of other terms, for the purposes of getting hits from search engines. One of the others was "latex fashion".

The most interesting article I found was this:
http://www.todaytonight.com.au/stories/665543.html
It has a picture of her: http://www.todaytonight.com.au/conte...33880654_l.jpg and many choice quotes from another psycologist, such as:
-- "What's happened to Morgan Featherstone smacks of cultural paedophilia ... it's all through the media and so we're engaging in a kind of symptomatic sexual abuse of a young child"
-- "We tend to think of pornography as being the absolute extreme XXX-rated type of stuff but pornography comes in all shapes and guises and this is very close to the line"
And another great one from her dad: "And if anyone's going to try and begrudge a little girl making some pocket money by having make-up done, well, there's something wrong with us if that's what it's come to"

At very least her dad's not making money from her: "He says every cent she's made has been kept in a trust account set up for her"

But possibly the most mind boggling thing I was able to dig out of google was entries on her school website: (www.kelvgrovshs.qld.edu.au)

In the section entitled "Weekly Awards to be presented at Assembly each Friday at 9am"

Yr 4/5 : Morgan Featherstone
For excellent progress in most areas. Good work! Keep it up!
and JUNIOR SCHOOL WEEKLY AWARDS - 21/03/02
Morgan Featherstone: Polite and courteous and regularly performs well in a variety of areas in class.


Bloody hell, what is this world doing to itself... :(

You have to have a license to fish but they let ANYONE have kids.

Doesn't make much sense does it.